East Asia Program

In 2025, the East Asia Program (EAP) celebrates our 75th year as Cornell’s hub for research, teaching, and engagement with East Asia. EAP serves as a forum for the interdisciplinary study of historical and contemporary East Asia, with over 45 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from schools and colleges across Cornell.

Highlights

Global Internships in East Asia

Apply for a Global Internship in East Asia by December 15. Interns receive an award totaling at least $3,000.

EAP Events Fall 2025

Line-up for Fall 2025 lectures and events

News

All news in this program

Faculty: Apply for Global Hubs Seed Grants

Proposals due Oct. 15

October 8, 2025

Warming Climate is Biggest Threat to Rangelands

Lund Debater Chris Barrett in World in Focus

September 29, 2025

Politics Gets Personal for China Scholar

Peidong Sun, EAP

September 17, 2025

Events

All events in this program

The Division of Feelings: Affect and Gender Politics in Cold War Literature of Taiwan and South Korea

Oct 21

4:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Is (Cutting) International Aid Good?

Oct 22

5:00 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, G76, Lewis Auditorium

Information Session: Global Internships

Oct 23

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Information Session: Laidlaw Scholars Leadership & Research Program

Oct 29

5:00 pm

Virtual

Publications

All publications in this program

Island Ablaze and Other Stories: The US Empire in North and South Korean Literatures

Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee, and Sang-Kyung Lee, eds.

East Asia Program

By the Waters of Babylon

Mori Arimasa, translated by J. Thomas Rimer

East Asia Program

The Kitchen God and His Wives: A Modern Chinese Folk Epic

Wilt L. Idema

East Asia Program